Michigan

[babigyrl22]

gosh I must have blocked this out of my memory. today while cleaning poop tray in the coop there was a gust of wind and the main door flew open (which now makes me think I need a latch for when I am inside the coop). The girls broke free. To my horror, my dogs were out. Now....I really wasn't worried about the Bichons...they are not that excited about the chickens and they didn't react and acted like they were apart of the flock.

BUT....my mutt, a 60lb+ rescue....came bounding down the deck after them.

Thank the LORD this dog is terrified of me because if she wanted to have fun killing spree with the girls there wasn't much I could do to stop her. Quick thinking made me pick up the fish net (which I have strategically hooked to the side of the coop) and I threatened every hair on that dogs head if she came near my precious girls. Unfortuneately the girls are NOT afraid of my dogs so they completly ignored the really big threat bounding towards them.

Well after my very serious verbal threat she bolted to the front yard and sat next to the front door to be let in so she could hide in her crate. Phew! Close one.

I ran up to let her in and came back and one of my Bichons (pictured in my avitar) was foraging with the birds.

if only I had my camera.....

 

[keyt1969]

Does anyone know where I can get a lion head bunny for a reasonable price? My boyfriend's brother and I are each looking for one.

Also looking for a female pot belly pig (under a year old) and a few standard sized pullets.

Send me a pm if you know where I can get any of those.


Welcome to any newcomers. I've been both sick and busy so I haven't been on here much. Hope everyone is doing well!!

 

[Stacykins]

Long night here. Last night around 8pm the high winds knocked the power out here. No biggie, if it was still out tomorrow I'd fire up the generator to keep the freezer frozen n other stuff. Sump pump backup batteries were working great, so went off to bed earlier than usual. Torrential rain was rather nice to listen to until...

dog projectile vomit put a damper on any chance for a peaceful sleep. All over the place, carpet, comforter. Tried locking her up in the bathroom, she barked her head off. Power came back on around 2am. Which is good, stuff needed to go in the washer ASAP.

 

[Opa]

Looks like we have a great week ahead. Sunny everyday and temperatures in the low 70' and night time lows in the lower 50's. I don't think we could have nicer weather even if I was Mother Nature's boss.

 

[M.sue]

This is my kind of weather fore casted for the weekend (thanks opa....didn't catch the weather yet) Hopefully the winds will die down, I can hear them whipping around right now. I have lots that I want to do outside.

Stacykins...... we've all had nights like that at one time or another and don't care to repeat. Hopefully today will better for you and hopefully your dog will be feeling better!

 

[Olive Hill]

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They are both marans that I got from Jerry in Ada. Yes, they look like boys...the little stinkers.

If they both are i will need to rehome them or send them off to freezer camp. I am so hoping ONE of them is a girl.

That or I hatch some girls.... :: stares longingly at my bator with eggs ::

I was thinking BCM had reddish brown heads. Hmmm, now I wonder which ones I'm confusing them with. Either way, definitely a couple of cockerels on your hands there. LOL!

 

[Opa]

I guess I should have specified that the weather forecast wasn't for Michigan. I'm visiting two of my sons who live in southwest Missouri. They have had an unbearably hot summer with many days of 100+ so to finally have weather in which you can be outside comfortably is great. I know so many people in the south who state winthey don't know how we can tolererate Michigan winters, but with winter I can put on more clothes. The extreme heat in much of the south is something I couldn't handle. You can only shuck off so many clothes and with the temperature they had this past summer a birthday suit would have been overdressed.

 

[babigyrl22]

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They are both marans that I got from Jerry in Ada. Yes, they look like boys...the little stinkers.

If they both are i will need to rehome them or send them off to freezer camp. I am so hoping ONE of them is a girl.

That or I hatch some girls.... :: stares longingly at my bator with eggs ::

I was thinking BCM had reddish brown heads. Hmmm, now I wonder which ones I'm confusing them with. Either way, definitely a couple of cockerels on your hands there. LOL!

No...you are correct. They are just not Black Coppers. They came from some lavender project eggs.

So they will have a mix of colors or just be all black. The one with the long tail feathers has white wing feathers you can only see when he stretches.

My BCM's are under one of my broodys and in the bator...and still nothing this morning.

 

[AngelaB]

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me too. today is coop cleaning day and boy does it need to be cleaned.

I got it cleaned and swept. Boy, they didn't like me doing that! lol My EE, who hardly never goes outside (the bigger ones kinda pick on her. She even has her very own roost to get her up away from them....she's spoiled) Anyways, she didn't know what to do when she got out. The neighbors kitten comes over (they have all kinda been raised together) and he stuck his little paw on the fence and my little EE pecked him!

None of the others have ever done that, and here is this little chickie who does it.....

 

[taprock]

With this lovely wind and rain I bet I have some work in the coop when this stops.

Did anyone see this today? About the sexy chicken and PETA http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/is-this-chicken-too-sexy-peta-thinks-so-2572348/
I'm not sure what to think.